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I posted a rather knee-jerk thought on my personal blog about this, but I wanted to expound a bit here since the audience is a bit more serious (*a-hem*). It seems that everyone is buying up virtualization products and services like plywood at a hurricane...
I've been a moderate user of SMS and systems management and software deployment technologies for almost as long as I've worked in the realm of software development. That comes to around twenty years, so sys mgt comes to about twelve or so I think. Like...
I know this sounds like I'm getting ready to point these two head-to-head, but really, I'm simply trying to contrast the two, not elect one of them king of the application virtualization world. I just finished Brian Tucker's blog post about The Reality...
I finally got to get my hands on an eval of Thinstall and see what it does differently than SoftGrid. It's actually pretty nice. For those of you already familiar with Thinstall, ignore the rest of this post, as it will probably seem dumb and juvenile...
VMware announced today that they are going to acquire Thinstall, a key competitor to Softricity and SoftGrid, which was acquired by Microsoft last year. The result of this seems obvious: Microsoft and VMware will continue to duke it out and we should...